mountebank
Example Sentences
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Mencken described Bryan as “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.”
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2024
Forget the Tinder swindler — how about the MI5 mountebank?
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022
“Some dreadful mountebank in a long-tailed coat will open . . . with a windy speech; then another mountebank will repeat the same rubbish in other words.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016
"There before me was a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man."
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2013
Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
